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When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.
Jim Messina
Music
Me
Generation
First
Nice
Think
Thinking
Folk
Folk Music
Record
Had
He
Step
Come
Felt
Opinion
Making
Came
Go
End
In My Opinion
Little
Next
Next Generation
Next Step
Kenny
Needed
From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone before - whether it was approaching the blues or folk music like 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You': nothing existed like that.
Jimmy Page
Music
You
Approaching
First
Before
Gone
Nothing
Approach
Folk
Folk Music
Totally
Had
New
New Approach
Like
Always
Leave
Existed
Led
Led Zeppelin
Going
Blues
Whether
Gonna
Zeppelin
Album
Babe
The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.
Johnny Flynn
Truth
Music
Truth Is
People
Cities
Folk
Folk Music
Always
Hum
Playing
Early American music and early folk music, before the record became popular and before there were pop stars and before there were venues made to present music where people bought tickets, people played music in the community, and it was much more part of a fabric of everyday life. I call that music 'root music.'
Jon Batiste
Life
Music
People
Everyday Life
Made
Before
Community
Stars
Everyday
Folk
Folk Music
Fabric
Record
More
Part
Bought
Tickets
Call
Venues
Became
Were
American
Where
American Music
Much
Root
Pop
Pop Stars
Popular
Present
Played
Early
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
Katey Sagal
Music
Soul
Listening
Folk
Folk Music
Soul Music
Lot
Up
Grew
I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.
Katherine Jenkins
Music
Everything
Broadway
Folk
Folk Music
Opera
Sing
Mix
Mixture
Things
I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
Landon Liboiron
Music
Long
Country
White
Guess
Stripes
Favorite
Kind
Folk
Folk Music
More
Picky
Like
Also
Rockabilly
Waits
Quieter
Get
Artists
Theatrical
Really
Tom
Tom Waits
Honest
Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I'm also a huge folk music fan - Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world.
Lindsay Mendez
Music
Day
Change
World
Inspire
Big
Films
Our
Joan
Our World
Folk
Folk Music
Gene
Gene Kelly
Joni Mitchell
Also
How
Judy
Mitchell
Judy Garland
Were
Lot
Huge
Up
Influenced
Influences
Fan
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
Growing
Growing Up
Garland
Kelly
When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I thought ,'OK, I'm the banjo girl.'
Maggie Rogers
Music
You
Thought
Girl
OK
Folk
Folk Music
Had
Said
Got
Banjo
Based
NYU
Applied
Playing
I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.
Melora Hardin
Music
Listening
Parents
Say
Joan
Those
Kind
Would
Folk
Folk Music
Joni Mitchell
Because
Judy
Mitchell
Judy Garland
Were
Lot
Up
Grew
Barbra Streisand
Garland
Streisand
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.
Michael Storm
Music
Guitar
Rage
Back
Folk
Folk Music
Traded
Banjo
Moved
Us
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
Mitski
Music
World
Father
Think
Folk
Folk Music
Obsessed
Countless
Performed
Around
Artists
Influences
Biggest
Them
Who
I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
P. J. Harvey
Music
Communication
Sense
Think
Way
Folk
Folk Music
Something
Study
Come
Know
Learn
Because
Traditional
Traditional Music
Began
Up
Storyteller
Much
Really
Growing
Growing Up
Traveling
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
Pat Metheny
Music
Time
Me
Musicians
People
Build
Jazz
Living
Tools
Folk
Folk Music
See
Spirit
Classical
Classical Music
Make
Around
Materials
Continue
Use
Jazz Musicians
Keep
Lives
Actual
Street
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
Paul Whiteman
Music
Age
Jazz
Machine
Machine Age
Folk
Folk Music
I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen to most is piano music from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. Russian music in particular.
Philip Pullman
Love
Music
Great
World
Jazz
Types
Music World
Folk
Folk Music
Russian
Piano
Particular
Most
Listen
Century
Pop
Pop Music
World Music
I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.
Renee Fleming
Music
Simple
Research
Immediate
Spent
Folk
Folk Music
About
Something
Emotional
Hours
Hours And Hours
Doing
Very
Fiddler
Grandfather
Appalachian
The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo.
Robbie Robertson
Music
People
Example
Big
Band
Folk
Folk Music
Kinds
Pot
Taking
Putting
New
Gospel
Ultimate
Mixing
Up
Mountain
Blues
Them
I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.
Robert Palmer
Music
Time
Me
Song
Astaire
Way
Those
Folk
Folk Music
Fred
Fred Astaire
Take
Road
Over
Heads
Like
Make
Talking
Make Up
Talking Heads
Up
Listen
African
Things
Album
I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things.
Roger McGuinn
Music
Art
Think
Considered
Background
Ourselves
Folk
Folk Music
Singers
Instruments
Makes
Were
Years
Art Form
Up
Timeless
Being
Different
Form
Stand
Stand Up
Electric
Strapped
Even
Different Things
Foundation
Things
Basis
Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world.
Sufjan Stevens
Music
Musicians
Culture
World
Word
Language
Mysteries
Think
Folk
Folk Music
Entire
Like
Understand
Answer
Becomes
Itself
Trying
Often
Just
Movement
Process
Packaged
Asked
Grunge
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.
Terri Windling
Music
Kind
Folk
Folk Music
Except
Like
Lot
American
Any
Celtic
Native
Native American
Tunes
American Music
Show
Show Tunes
Early
I came late to the genre of folk music.
Tom Morello
Music
Late
Folk
Folk Music
Genre
Came
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.
Tom Morello
Music
Me
Three
Lyrical
Folk
Folk Music
Marshall
About
Guthrie
Cash
Johnny
Johnny Cash
Could
Through
Dawned
Catalogue
Combination
Metallica
Years
Years Ago
Stack
Heavy
Anything
Dylan
Woody
Woody Guthrie
Bob
Bob Dylan
Then
Pete Seeger
Chords
Right
Early
Phil
The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.
Trey Anastasio
Music
World
Changed
Music World
Musical
Definition
Folk
Folk Music
Blending
Styles
Quickly
Really
Fast
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Van Morrison
Music
Folk
Folk Music
Attached
Beat
Name
American
Essence
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